United scores 48 out of 100, which is mixed, and sits 13 of 18 on the board. This is the one fleet anywhere where the aircraft on your flight resolves to a registration and the registration to an install record, so the odds here go down to the departure.
Reported · per-tail verification from unitedstarlinktracker.com (@martinamps), 25 JUL 2026 · quality weights from Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026
481 of 1,808 aircraft, free for MileagePlus members. Odds swing a lot by route and aircraft type.
Every aircraft United flies, by system, priced. The rows add up to the published ConnectScore, and the top row on its own is the next-gen number. The build fails if they stop adding up.
| Segment | Aircraft | Share | Share of the fleet | Quality | Free | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlink next-gen row Free for MileagePlus members, and joining is free. Reported united/data.json, the daily pull from unitedstarlinktracker.com · 2026-07-25 | 481 | 30.5% | 1.00 | 1.00 | 30.5 | |
| Viasat $8 for MileagePlus members, $10 for everyone else. The April 2026 “free wifi expanded to Viasat” stories were a glitch United corrected. Reported unitedstarlinktracker.com/fleet, hangar grid joined to the tail registry · 2026-07-25 | 525 | 33.2% | 0.55 | 0.70 | 12.8 | |
| Panasonic 16.31 Mbps median and 833 ms in Ookla's 2H 2025 set, the slowest major provider measured. $8 / $10. Reported unitedstarlinktracker.com/fleet, hangar grid joined to the tail registry · 2026-07-25 | 407 | 25.8% | 0.22 | 0.70 | 4.0 | |
| no wifi CRJ-200, ERJ-145 and CRJ-700. No connectivity of any kind, and none of them are in the Starlink programme, so this row shrinks when the aircraft retire rather than when installs proceed. Reported unitedstarlinktracker.com/fleet, hangar grid joined to the tail registry · 2026-07-25 | 131 | 8.3% | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.0 | |
| Thales FlytLIVE Thales FlytLIVE Ka. $8 / $10. Reported unitedstarlinktracker.com/fleet, hangar grid joined to the tail registry · 2026-07-25 | 35 | 2.2% | 0.55 | 0.70 | 0.9 | |
| Not published the tracker publishes no system for these tails | 229 | out | out | out | excluded | |
| ConnectScore | 1,579 | 100% | 48 | |||
| Next-gen odds, the top row on its own | 30.5% | 30 |
1,579 aircraft with a published system, plus 229 left out of the denominator instead of assumed into it, for 1,808 in total. Every segment comes from published per-tail data, so the range is zero. Points are shown to one decimal place; the unrounded rows sum to 48.09, which rounds to the published 48.
Four things, in the order they become useful. Every one of them is available at tier A, which is the tier this page was derived at. Anything this fleet cannot support has been cut from the list.
Aircraft assignments firm up roughly 48 hours before departure and they can still move up to pushback. Whatever this page says today, the answer for your flight is more settled then.
Every United departure on a cached route carries its own history and its own observation count. The optimizer ranks them, and a two-hour-later flight is often a different answer entirely. Open the route optimizer →
The registration on your itinerary can be looked up against the install archive, which is the only place on this site where the answer stops being a probability. The tail registry →
Roughly 27% of the fleet carries Starlink today, so a different departure is a real second draw. Whether that is worth doing is a question about the change fee on your fare, and it is cheaper to know the answer before the gate than at it.
Nobody has load-tested a full cabin on any of these systems, so a good score is not a promise about the hour you fly. Downloading the deck is the move that makes the odds stop mattering.
The route optimizer ranks every departure on a route by its own Starlink history — a two-hour-later flight is often a different answer entirely. The hangar floor shows all 481 equipped tails with the day each one was first seen equipped.
United has Starlink on 481 of its 1,808 aircraft (27%) as of 2026-07, so it is a real possibility but not the default. Its ConnectScore is 48 out of 100, in the mixed band.
On United it is free for loyalty members. ConnectScore multiplies the fleet share by a free-for-you factor, so a paid or unconfirmed free claim scores lower than the same fleet given away free.
481 of 1,808, or 27% of the fleet. Verified tail by tail by unitedstarlinktracker.com (@martinamps).
The ledger sees installs, and installs stop at the cabin door. If you flew United this month, thirty seconds here is a data point nobody else has.
Reported Fleet and per-tail verification: unitedstarlinktracker.com (@martinamps), 25 JUL 2026. Quality weights: Ookla Speedtest Intelligence, 28 Apr 2026. Full credit and citation →